Online conferences/seminars later today

 I am very much looking forward to sitting in on two online conferences or seminars later today. At 5.15 p.m., Justin Schwartz (King's College, London) will be delivering a paper to the Institute of Historical Research's seminar on 17th-century British history on the subject of 'The Politics of Consensus and the Agreements of the People'. Two weeks ago, David Como (Stanford University) gave an intriguing paper on the material in Lambeth Palace Library on Ireton and the Levellers. Then, at 7.00 p.m., Trinity College, Dublin has a conference to mark ten years of the Depositions' Project covering the Irish Rebellion of 1641. Jane Ohlmeyer (TCD) and John Walter (University of Essex) will be two of the participants. 

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